Description
Mastercard's Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard's rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.
As a Managing Consultant – Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy - Program Management, you will manage a portfolio of projects that support a strategy, a strategic change, or initiative with significant impact on the organization. You will manage complexity and inherent risks across a wide range of business areas, where there are strong interdependencies and shared resources, and you will manage benefits from their initial identification and definition through to the eventual realization and achievement of measurable improvements.
Client Impact
- Lead client engagements and workstreams for large enterprise-level programs across a range of industries, problem statements, and cultures
- Promote proven, accredited project and change management methodologies and techniques to help clients drive measurable value from initiation to benefit realization
- Mitigate risks, solve issues, and ensure plan remains in line with agreed timescales, budgets, and quality criteria
- Identify new business opportunities and communicate to executives to pursue, leading sales calls and client development including proposal contribution
- Own key relationships with mid-level to senior client stakeholders and independently assess client agenda, internal culture, and change readiness
Team Collaboration & Culture
- Lead team to creative insights and sound business recommendations, and deliver impactful and influential client presentations while growing team members' roles and skills
- Provide expertise and day-to-day project delivery team leadership, supporting evolution of solutions with innovation and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all levels
- Manage relationship with internal Mastercard leadership and stakeholders and build the firm's intellectual capital
- Effectively leverage subject matter experts to develop best customized solutions
- Provide on-the-job training, coaching, and mentorship to junior team members, including evaluating performance, and providing feedback
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree with work experience in project management and change management methodologies and techniques
- 6+ years of Project Management experience
- Exposure to financial institutions, payments, and/or consultancies
- Experience coaching and managing teams across multiple projects and/or engagements with third parties
- Experience managing key client relationships
- Knowledge of business KPIs, financials, and organizational leadership
- Ability to provide perspective on industry and marketplace
- Logical, structured thinking
- Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)
- Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs
- Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis